Contributions to UK for Defence

[A fool and his money.....]

51 minutes ago, pongo said:

More likely, nothing to do with it.

In 1940 Britain was not in a position to do anything about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands. And let's not forget that many thought that Britain stood no chance and should make peace (whilst others leaned towards supporting the Nazis because they so hated London). 

They did nothing to defend them and basically ignored them when they were occupied. It's only our location that saved us from the same fate. That was 80 odd years ago and they have defended us from precisely nothing since. Long millions of the Manx tax payer's money used to finance unnecessary killing all over the world.

[pongo]

5 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said:

they have defended us from precisely nothing since

The Royal Navy protects British maritime trade all over the world including significant tonnage on the Manx registry.

[quilp]

2 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said:

They did nothing to defend them and basically ignored them when they were occupied.

There was a token defence initially, but against an overwhelming invading force both in numbers and firepower, that defence was on a hiding to nothing so rather than fight to the last bullet it was decided to surrender for the sake of the civilian population. The same reasons why Britain refrained from staging a counter-invasion as there was little to gain from it. 

[finlo]

1 minute ago, pongo said:

The Royal Navy protects British maritime trade all over the world including significant tonnage on the Manx registry.

There was "significant tonnage" in and around Strand street on Saturday!

[Kopek]

Could be that the French may feel obliged to repel any invasion of the Channel Ils.?

[A fool and his money.....]

20 minutes ago, pongo said:

The Royal Navy protects British maritime trade all over the world including significant tonnage on the Manx registry.

I was talking about defending us, not a small, dubious and recent brass plate industry of ours.

[A fool and his money.....]

16 minutes ago, Kopek said:

Could be that the French may feel obliged to repel any invasion of the Channel Ils.?

Could it be that the British may feel obliged to repel any invasion of the IOM and for the same reasons?

[Roger Mexico]

47 minutes ago, quilp said:

There was a token defence initially, but against an overwhelming invading force both in numbers and firepower, that defence was on a hiding to nothing so rather than fight to the last bullet it was decided to surrender for the sake of the civilian population. The same reasons why Britain refrained from staging a counter-invasion as there was little to gain from it. 

There was also a massive evacuation, most notably of children.